When someone says "snowman soup" what do you think it is?

[CinnamonStar]

My mum used to make us "snowman soup" sometimes at Christmas time.

It was basically a pale coloured soup - I think it had leftover turkey in, but it was mainly potatoes and cream.
And there would be a few pieces of carrot floating about in it, and that was the snowman's nose.
And there were little black bits that you just had to find but not eat - not sure if they were peppercorns or cloves - and they were the snowman's eyes.

But I was talking to someone who said she was making it for her DC's advent hamper or some such thing, so I was a bit . And it turns out that it means hot chocolate with marshmallows, and you stir it with a candy cane and it's this Christmassy thing that everyone else knows about.

So was mine just a made-up thing of my mum's?

I plan to also make your Mum's soup and call it that.

I knew about the White Hot Chocolate with marshmallows thing, and it is quite horrid as so sweet. Paid about £4 for two packs at a Christmas Fair last year.